Oh no! Here we go already...and on the first day.

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Well, started working at Taco Bell today and already, people are throwing "stupid" bombs at me. I was ringing up this guys order and it came out to $5.04. The guy gives me a five then holds his hand out with a bunch of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. I looked at him, wondering if he wanted me to take the whole thing, four pennies out or a nickel. He didn't say a thing. I asked him. He proceeded to say I must have something going wrong in my head and I must be stupid, making the universal "coo-koo", finger circling head gesture. He said, "What do you think? I wanted you to take out four pennies!" Then say so then, a**hole!

Ugghh! I'm a college grad working at a fast food place. And my uniform automatically robs me of 50 IQ points in the eyes of most people. So I guess I was right. I'll be nothing but a dumb, ret*d according to these g-d d*mn NTs just because I'm wearing a Taco Bell uniform instead of a business suit!

We all have to start some where dont we. Also if there was no fast food inderstrey then where else would teenagers work.

I worked at Taco Bell (or Toxic Hell) for a few years. I absolutely d the idiots like that--because usually, the dumber a person is, the bigger the jerk they are, and the more "self-esteem" boosting they get from making fun of other people they perceive as dumb.

Shmucks will always be schmucks, but it is fun to call a shmuck on his (or her) behavior. Oh, the stories...

This one night a car full of college idiots orders through the drive-up, but not food, just drinks.

"I want a liter of cola. A liter. A whole liter of cola."

I'm serious. So I ask him if wanted Pepsi or Diet Pepsi.

"A liter of cola. A liter of cola."

Whatever. So I give him a large Pepsi COLA.

"Is this a liter of cola? I wanted a liter of cola. This is not a liter of cola."

So I say, "The liter is the metric equivalent of a quart. A quart is 32 ounces. The large cup in your hand is 32 ounces. You have 32 ounces of Pepsi COLA. Because we are in America where we do not use the metric system except to talk about (which I am sure you are on), you get a whole QUART of COLA in addition to what I can only assume to be the multiple QUARTS of alcohol you've previously ingested."

No response, and the other twits in the car start laughing.

Or...

"I'll let you keep my change if you guess the amount without looking at your computer."

I agree because I have absolutely nothing to lose. The total comes to $7.38. He hands me a $20.

At the same time I say, "$12.62. Were you serious or did you just think I was an idiot?"

I didn't keep his change.

Or...

Two especially intelligent-sounding individuals order food. The first one listens to what the second one orders, then goes, "Your cholesterol must be completely asinine. Kind of like this cashier."

Bad idea.

"Your snap assessment of my mental acquity is based on the false, self-gratuitious assumption that all fast food employees are idiots. I beg to differ. I, for one, may work at Taco Bell, but I don't use an adjective that defines behavior to describe an inanimate object that cannot behave any way at all.

Cholesterol, according to my physiology textbook, is a white crystalline substance, C27H45OH, found in animal tissues and various foods, that is normally synthesized by the liver. Its level in the stream can influence the pathogenesis of certain conditions, such as the development of atherosclerotic plaque and coronary artery disease.

Pathogenesis, in case you were wondering, is the origination and development of a disease.

'Atherosclerosis' is a form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition (or the act of depositing) plaques containing cholesterol and lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized arteries.

Asinine, as you so aptly demonstrated, is an adjective that means 'completely stupid and foolish.' It also means 'resembling an a*s.' An 'a*s,' is, among other things an aggressively stupid person.

While his food may eventually lead to some sort of heart disease, his cholesterol most certainly is not asinine, whereas your foolish misuse of a word in order to sound intelligent almost certainly qualifies."

Yes, I actually went off on him. His jaw was hanging open. He complained, but of course could not coherently make his case...plus my manager was listening to the entire interchange in the first place and asked him, "so basically you want me to punish someone who proved they weren't as stupid as you assumed?"

I liked that manager.

Why don't you write down all the absurd stuff that happens. People LOVE to read stuff like that. You can use the situation to your advantage. Become a sort of humorist/satirist like Dave Barry or P.J. O'Rourke, but for the fast food industry.

I worked at McDonalds for 8 months, quitting in August 2005.

It was so bad I refuse to work at all now